WAG: Messi will marry next year

Argentinian newspaper La Capital claims that Barcelona attacker and Argentinian international Lionel Messi will marry next year with his girlfriend Antonella (read more here).

Sources close to both families would have revealed to the paper that the couple has made the decision to marry. Although a concrete date hasn't yet been fixed, the wedding will take place in their hometown Rosario at the end of 2010.

Argentinian news site Taringa claims that the full name of Messi's girlfriend is Antonella Roccuzzo and that the girl is 19 years old. She is a fan of Newell's Old Boys, the club Messi played for between 1995 and 2000, and would already know the player since childhood. Antonella is the niece of Lucas Scaglia, one of Messi's closest friends who also played at Newell's Old Boys, and the two would have met for the first time at Lucas' place.

Messi confirmed his relationship earlier this week in an interview with Catalan sports paper El Mundo Deportivo: "It's already one year that my girlfriend is with me and until now nobody knew about it. Well, people saw us together but they thought it was something normal. I didn't know that there would be paparazzi at the Sitges carnival. If we wouldn't have gone there, people still wouldn't have known anything. But it doesn't matter.

I'm growing as a player and as a person. And of course Antonella is helping me. I knew here since I was five years old, she's the niece of my best friend, she's from Rosario like myself. I saw her grow up and she saw me grow up. Our families know each other, so I didn't have any doubts."

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